Nonprofit Law Center Releases Guides to Regulating Junk Food Marketing to Kids
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A nonprofit public health law center today released two new guides to help reduce the impact of unhealthy food and beverage marketing on children across the country.
The Public Health Law Program (PHLP), a project of the nonprofit Public Health Institute, compiled and evaluated dozens of possible government and school regulatory measures, a number of which have never been implemented in the United States.
"A number of recent Supreme Court decisions have protected commercial speech the way that courts have historically protected political, religious, and artistic speech," says PHLP director Marice Ashe.
PHLP developed a separate guide specifically for public schools, which have become a prime target for fast food, soda, and candy marketers.
Public school administrators have the authority and obligation to protect the educational environment of their schools, but they often underestimate their options when it comes to limiting the commercial messages that bombard their students, says Ashe.
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